The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
My real mother is a survivor, very strong and respected by the people who know her, but our relationship is not easy - but then, it was never going to be.
Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.
I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.
It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.
I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.
Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.
Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
